My internet woes will be solved, be it by moving to a different house, by Starlink, or by getting an ISP to actually service an area. But that doesn’t solve the internet problem. Motivation Right now an insane number of people in the world, even in America, even in a high tech state like California, do not have broadband internet. More importantly, throwing money at ISPs does not yield meaningful results.
Continue reading ↦Eleven days ago I wrote about the great digital divide. Today, I rant about the cost of bridging that divide. I’ve done a fair bit to try to secure better internet up here. For one, I bugged Spectrum, the big ISP around here, into giving me a quote on a service install. A lot more on that later. I also got a Visible SIM card, giving us a three-tiered solution for the time being.
Continue reading ↦Oh, Hello Deborah, Simone, the internet. Speaking of the internet, I recently moved to Northern California - specifically Shasta County, where more than 40,000 people, myself included, lack broadband internet. Now, I currently work as a Software Engineer, so having the internet is very important for me to work - here’s how that’s going. I guess I should begin by describing what internet we do have. Currently, the house I’m living in is connected to TDS DSL, at a blistering megabit or so download, and a blazing 300 kilobits per second upload.
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